Monday, January 29, 2018

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/28/2018

Charlie Waller (January 19, 1935 - August 18, 2004)
It was a lot of fun being back on the air at WHUS on Sunday afternoon.  Musical selections included everything from nominees for Best Bluegrass Album at that evening's Grammy Awards to several songs in a belated birthday celebration honoring the late Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Charlie Waller.  The complete playlist is listed below.  

Many thanks to Cathy Bumgarner Day and son Keegan for filling in behind the mic for the last two weeks.

We hope to see you once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Requests are RED]

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
  • I Hear A Choo-Choo Coming / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Live! In McClure / Rebel
  • Ridin' The Lines / The Travelers / Ridin' The Lines / Hay Holler
  • Here Comes The Train / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
  • That High Lonesome Sound / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / Blue Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
  • Another Town / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
  • Have You Lost All The Love / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
  • Tall Dark Stranger / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
  • The Drunken Billygoat / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
  • Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
  • Roll On Buddy / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1937-1938 / JSP Records
  • Wall Around Your Heart / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
  • Hamilton County / The Dillards / Pickin' & Fiddlin' / Collectors' Choice Music
  • Love Beyond / Lynn Morris Band / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
  • Helen / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
  • Virginia Bluebell / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
  • I Seen It All / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
  • Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
  • You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
  • Brown Hill / Travers Chandler / Archaic / Patuxent Music
  • I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
  • Sophronie / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
  • I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
  • Each Season Changes You / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
  • Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Not A World From Home / Rounder
  • Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / Self-Produced
  • Where The Old Red River Flows / King Wilkie / Broke / Rebel
  • Let The Whole Work Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
  • Don't Be Cruel / Bobby Osborne / Original / Compass Records
  • Tall Timber / Michael Cleveland with Jason Carter / Fiddler's Dream / Compass Records
  • Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent / In Concert, Volume One -- All The Rage / Upper Management Music
  • Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
  • Swampgrass / Larry Gillis & the Hard Driving Bluegrass Band  / Swampgrass / Tinman Recording
  • The Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
  • The Hills And Home / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / King
  • Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
  • Blowin' Up A Storm / Michelle Canning / no label
  • Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc.
  • It's Just A Road / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
  • The Old Crooked Trail / Big Country Bluegrass / Let 'Em Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
  • Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
  • I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
  • If I'd Have Wrote That Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
  • When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco
  • The Little White Church / Jim & Jesse McReynolds with Mac Wiseman / Music Among Friend / Rounder
  • Brighter Mansion Over There / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
  • Lord, Protect My Soul / Bill Monroe with the Country Gentlemen / Bill Monroe And The Stars Of The Bluegrass Hall Of Fame / MCA
  • Open Up The Window, Noah / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
  • Just A Little Talk With Jesus / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
  • Lord, Don't Leave Me Here / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
  • My Eyes Shall Be On Canaan's Land / Terry Baucom with Doyle Lawson, Jimmy Haley, & Lou Reid / In A Groove / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc.
  • Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/7/2018

Happy New Year!  For the first 2018 session of our Bluegrass Cafe, the show was all about celebrating the birthday of a Bluegrass and Country Music Hall of Famer (Earl Scruggs, born January 6, 1924), remembering the untimely passing of another Country Music Hall of Famer (Hank Williams, who died January 1, 1953), and honoring a few Bluegrass greats who passed in 2017 (among them:  Junior Barber, Dave Evans, Robert Fraker, Aubrey Holt, Pete Kuykendall, Curly Seckler).  

Hope you'll consider joining us once again this coming Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

Prelude of Earl Scruggs music (3:45-4PM):

  • Flint Hill Special / David Talbot / Foggy Mountain Special:  A Bluegrass Tribute To Earl Scruggs / Rounder
  • Reuben / Jim Mills / Foggy Mountain Special:  A Bluegrass Tribute To Earl Scruggs / Rounder
  • Foggy Mountain Special / Ron Block / Foggy Mountain Special:  A Bluegrass Tribute To Earl Scruggs / Rounder
  • Randy Lynn Rag / Charlie Cushman / Foggy Mountain Special:  A Bluegrass Tribute To Earl Scruggs / Rounder
  • Sally Goodin / Larry Perkins / Foggy Mountain Special:  A Bluegrass Tribute To Earl Scruggs / Rounder

Bluegrass Cafe (4-7PM):  

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Hot Corn, Cold Corn / Grisman-Gill-Pedersen-Buchanan-Gordy / Here Today / Rounder
  • To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
  • Hot Foot / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
  • Hot Night In August / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
  • Summer When You First Loved Me / Lonesome River Band / Head On Into Heartache / Mountain Home
  • Deep River / Livewire / Wired! / Rounder
  • Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau (with Tony Rice Unit) / In Good Company / CMH
  • Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound / Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz / Picture In A Tear / Rounder
  • Corriella / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Self-Produced
  • Emotions / Reno & Smiley / Together Again / Rebel
  • Eating Out Of Your Hand / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
  • Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
  • The Cat Came Back / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / The Cat Came Back / Rebel
  • Losing You / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Universal
  • Drinkin' At The Waterhole / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
  • Move It On Over / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper 
  • Pan American / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
  • 'Neath A Cold Gray Tomb Of Stone / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
  • Singing Waterfall / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
  • My Sweet Love Ain't Around / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
  • Why Don't You Love Me / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper
  • You Win Again / Ralph Stanley with Melba Montgomery / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts / Rebel
  • Cold Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
  • I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / The Grascals with Hank Williams, Jr. / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
  • I Saw The Light / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper
  • Afraid For What's Ahead / Bear Bridge Band / A Bear Bridge Sampler / Open Road
  • Love Will Make It Last / Dave Evans / High Waters / Rebel
  • Atlanta Is Burning / Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel
  • When I'm Gone / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
  • I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
  • Lilacs, Lilies, And Roses / Bear Bridge Band / never recorded / no label
  • Doggone / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
  • Onwards / Mile Twelve / Onwards / Delores The Taurus Records
  • Poet With Wings / Volume Five / Milestones / Mountain Fever Records
  • Calamity Jane / Becky Buller with Rhonda Vincent / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
  • Fiddle And Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall / Koch Records
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
  • Buck Creek Gal / Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman with Earl Scruggs / A Tribute To Fiddlin' Paul Warren / Self-Produced
  • Shine Hallelujah Shine / Reno & Smiley with Bill Harrell & the Tennessee Cut-Ups / Together Again / Rebel
  • Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
  • Wait For The Light To Shine / Jim & Jesse / I Like The Old Time Way / Old Dominion Records
  • So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / Songs Of Flatt & Scruggs / Rounder
  • The Old Fashioned Preacher / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
  • I'll Keep On Sailing / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Just Over In Heaven / Sugar Hill
  • Will You Be Ready To Go Home? / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
  • Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Monday, January 01, 2018

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/31/2017

Happy New Year!

As you likely know, the world of Bluegrass Music lost three fine figures during this week just past, including two members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.  Fortunately for us, all three of these performers lived long, musical lives:  fiddler Fletcher Bright was in his 80s, and Hall of Famers Miggie Lewis (of the Lewis Family) was 91 years old and Curly Seckler was 98.  Amazing.

Our primary focus for Sunday's show turned out to be the music of Curly Seckler.  It seems like Curly Seckler played music with just about everyone during his nearly 100 years of living including Charlie Monroe, Jim & Jesse, and the Stanley Brothers.  Of course, his most notable gig was providing the mandolin chop and singing some fine tenor harmonies to Lester Flatt with the Foggy Mountain Boys.  To that end, we shared a whole bunch of songs from those Flatt & Scruggs years, including several songs that were either written or co-written by Curly Seckler.  We also included selections from some of Curly's solo albums, his years with the Nashville Grass, and his guest performances on records by David Grisman and Larry Sparks.  If you would like to know more about the life of Curly Seckler, be sure to check out the fine 2016 biography of Curly Seckler (Foggy Mountain Troubadour:  The Life And Music Of Curly Seckler by Penny Parsons).  And, of course, keep listening to his music.  


We shared music from some favorite releases of 2017, too.  Among them were songs from the great Mac Wiseman autobiography-in-song collection called "I Sang The Song," Bobby Osborne, Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Mile Twelve, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Big Country Bluegrass, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and the Gibson Brothers, just to name a few. We look forward to hearing the new music of 2018, as well.

Thanks for listening to the program in 2017, and we sure hope you'll keep on tuning us in in 2018!  

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [2017 releases are listed in RED]

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • No Doubt About It / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Two O'Clock / Fletcher Bright & Bill Evans / Fine Times At Fletcher's House / Native & Fine Records
  • The Gloryland Way / Lewis Family / Bluegrass Country Club / Thoroughbread Records
  • Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Curly Seckler with Larry Cordle / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • The Guitar / Sierra Hull & Justin Moses with Mac Wiseman / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
  • Westward Bound / Molly Rose Band / With All Due Respect / Patuxent Music
  • Young Heart Old Soul / Garrett Newton Band / Young Heart Old Soul / Pinecastle
  • Lost John / Kevin Prater Band / All I Ever Wanted / Patuxent Music
  • 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Mac Wiseman with Alison Krauss / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
  • They Call The Wind Maria / Bobby Osborne / Original / Compass Records
  • Henry Brown / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records
  • The Girl I Love / Shannon Slaughter / Never Standing Still / Self-Produced
  • Sunny Side Of Town / Mile Twelve / Onwards / Delores The Taurus Records
  • Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
  • I'll Just Go Away / Dale Ann Bradley with Vince Gill / Dale Ann Bradley / Pinecastle
  • The Girl From River Run / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / The Long-Awaited Album / Rounder
  • Let 'Em Know I'm From Virginia / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I"m From Virginia / Rebel
  • The Night Flatt & Scruggs Played Carnegie Hall / Front Porch Philosophy / Very Jerry Records
  • I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Purple Heart / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • No Mother Or Dad / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • My Little Girl In Tennessee / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Thinking About You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Moonlight On My Cabin / Curly Seckler / Curly Seckler Sings Again / County [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • My Long Journey Home / David Grisman with Doc Watson & Curly Seckler / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • That Old Book Of Mine / Curly Seckler / Curly Seckler Sings Again / County [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Little Cabin Home On The Hill / David Grisman with Tony Rice & Curly Seckler / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • China Grove My Hometown / Nashville Grass with Curly Seckler / China Grove My Hometown / Folkways [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Down In Caroline / Curly Seckler / Down In Caroline / Copper Creek [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • No Doubt About It / Curly Seckler & the Nashville Grass / No Doubt About It / Revonah Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Building On Sand / Curly Seckler & the Nashville Grass / No Doubt About It / Revonah Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Foggy Mountain Special / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • The Last Old Shovel / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
  • Old Swinging Bridge / Remington Ryde / A Storyteller's Memory / Pinecastle
  • Plenty Of Everything But You / Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / Blue Grass Style / Self-Produced
  • Life To My Days / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Life Is A Story / Mountain Home
  • I Don't Have The Want To Anymore / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
  • You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me) / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Made To Move / Compass Records
  • Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Mountains Are Calling Me Home / Mountain Fever Records
  • Tennessee Hound Dog / Feller & Hill / Brothers And Heroes / Rural Rhythm
  • I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
  • That's Where Glory Can Be Found / Flashback / Foxhounds And Fiddles / Pinecastle
  • I Stand Alone At God's Door / Lewis Family / Bluegrass Country Club / Thoroughbread Records
  • There's Gonna Be A Singing / Nashville Grass with Curly Seckler / There's Gonna Be a Singing! / CMH [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometime / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Jesus Broke The Bonds / Carolina Blue / Sounds Of Kentucky Grass / Poor Mountain Records
  • Is There Room For Me? / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Larry Sparks with Jesse McReynolds & Curly Seckler / Lonesome And Then Some / Rebel [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Curly Seckler with Larry Sparks / Bluegrass Dnn't Your Know / Copper Creek [Remembering Curly Seckler:  December 25, 1919 - December 27, 2017]
  • Auld Lang Syne / Tony Trischka / Glory Shone Syne / Glory Shone Around:  A Christmas Collection / Rounder